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F. W. HOLLAND.

LETTER CASE.

APPLICATION FILED APR.2I. I916.

' Patented July 22, 1919.

FREDERICK W. HOLLAND, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T0 HERMAN SCHEUER, JACOB H. SCHEUER, AN'D ALWIN J. SCHEUER, COPARTNERS DOING BUSINESS UNDER THE FIRM-NAME 0F HERMAN SCHEUER & SONS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

LETTER-CASE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented July 22, acre.

Application filed April 21, 1916. Serial N 0. 92,594.

following described new\ and useful Improvements in Letter-Cases.

The invention is an improvement in wallets known in the trade as letter cases, and consists in the application to and combination with such article of improved and compact means for holding envelops or folded correspondence of various sizes and even though longer than the folded case itself, and it also consists in the new and useful combination and relative arrangement of wall-members and pockets whereby there is provided within the usual compass of a letter case a bill-fold pocket and supplemental pockets and means for retaining letters and folded correspondence larger than the depth of the bill-fold 'pocket, all as hereinafter explained and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

The invention will be more fully understood by reference to the drawing forming part hereof and wherein I have illustrated the preferred'form consisting of such billfold letter-case.

Figure 1 is a perspective view with parts broken away; and u Fig. 2 a cross-section on line II-II of Fig. 1.

The device shown consists of two main walls marked 1 and 2, respectively the outer wall 1 being formed entirely of soft leather 4 with any suitable finish on itsexterior, and

the inner wall 2 being also flexible. These two walls are united by stitching or gluing, or both, along their ends 3 and bot-tom 4, the remaining edges being separately hemmed or finished to constitute the entrance to the bill-fold pocket between the two walls. The

said walls as thus united are formed with a folding crease 5, coinciding with their median diameter, as shown by dotted lines, so that the two parts can be folded over upon each other in the customary letter-case form and so as to be convenient to slip intothe pocket. The folded part on one side of the crease line carries a pocket formed by a leather wall 6, secured tothe superposed walls 1 and 2 on three sides and with its fourth side free and disposed adjacent to the crease line, where the pocket .may be supplied wi-th a closure-flap 7.

The opposite half of the folded main wall 2, carrles a gusset-shaped wall 8, secured thereto on two sides only, that is to the sides marked 3 and 4, and which forms a stall or pocket between the walls 2 and 8,

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into which envelops or folded correspond once, or other papers, may be inserted. and carried, the space available for this purpose being limited only by the width of the folded case as a whole. The dotted lines 10 illustrate the position of an envelop thus placed, it being evident that such envelop may extend laterally (toward the crease line 5) beyond the edge of the wall 8, or even beyond the crease line, if required, in which case it will become folded by the folding of the main walls. The contained envelop may obviously also extend upwardly beyond the top margin of the letter-case, since thestall and case are open at the top, and thus any size of letter will be securely retained in position while yet accessible for examination without removal. The wall 8 is trimmed ofl? obliquely at its top to facilitate the examination of the retained papers, and one or more supplemental walls such as 9, similarly obliquely trimmed, are superposed upon the wall 8, forming additional letter-stalls. The wall 9, however, issecured to the inner edge of the wall 8, for a short distance from its .vided a series of letter stalls, graded in height and adapted to retain various sizes of letters with accessibility as well as With security. The oblique upper edges of the walls 8 and 9 of the stalls slope from the end edge 3 toward the median folding crease 5, thus placing the high, closed sides of the letter stalls outside and the low, open edges inside, where they are protected by the crease, when the pocket-book is folded. Each of the letter stalls, it will be perceived, has an ample guide for directing letters into it. The guide for the inner stall is formed by the surface of the wall 2, which is exposed by the obliquely trimmed edge of the ex-posed above the oblique edge of the wall inner face of one of the halves alon .base and the upright free edge thereo said 9. This strip, though narrow, constitutes an efiective guide by reason of extending diagonally in the manner shown. The two wall members 8 and 9, related as shown in the drawing, may be formed and united separately and then stitched flat to the bill-fold wall 2 by the same line of stitching asse-' cures that wall to the outer bill-fold wall 1,

thereby enabling the entire device to be made 1n simple manner and of inexpensive cost.

Having thus described my invention, I claim the same as follows:

1. A cket letter case comprising a main Evall f0 ded o3 itls medilatuli diailrlielter alllld orming two at-ying o ong aves t e length of which is parallel with the folding crease, and a plurality of supe d graduated gusset-shaped walls stitched flat to tllle t e outer up- 2. A pocket letter case comprising a main wall having a folding crease, in combination 'with a plurality of su rfroscd graduated flat-lying walls secured cose against one folded portion of said wall and forming therewith a series of letter stalls of graded heights open toward the top side and the folding crease of said letter case, the walls forming the outer and shorter of these stalls having their vertical edges at the side toward the folding crease united fora short distance adjacent the bottom.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification.

' FREDERICK W. HOLLAND.

the fol creasethe upwardl pro'ect' portion 0 the liiwer wa l? forminga diagonal guide. 

